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Too Many Secrets

Copyright© 2019 by jake60

Chapter 17

Matti McEwen shifted in his seat, trying to get comfortable in the cramped confines of his aisle seat in the large passenger plane he was in. He was flying to Vancouver from Mexico City, the city where his flight from Costa Rica had left him, so that he could transfer to his flight back to Canada. He had just spent the month of December in Costa Rica, trying to enjoy the sun, sand and relaxation his deluxe resort had offered. Even the two weeks he had spent with his sister and her family when they joined him, hadn’t been enough to change his dark mood.

His hidden riches may have been able to pay all of the expenses for his vacation and theirs, but it couldn’t buy him what he really needed. There was no way he could snap his fingers and ask for the check, and somehow have it bring Dawn back to him. Anna and Bob could hardly believe it when he told them that he and Dawn were no longer together. He must have had to listen to them almost a dozen times over the two weeks, as they made reference to Dawn in one way or another. These constant reminders had done nothing to improve his frame of mind.

As the plane droned its way north, Matti leaned back and closed his eyes as he thought once more about the last time he had seen Dawn. It had been that evening when he fled her apartment in tears, unable to speak any longer. He thought again about the lies he had told her. There had been no six-month job up north, the diamond company was a figment of his imagination, and he wouldn’t have even considered taking up with Amber Newsom again, even if he knew where she happened to be. All that those lies had been intended to do was to present a semi-believable story to Dawn: a story to explain why he was breaking it off with her. He knew he couldn’t tell her the truth, because to do that would be to invite further problems for both of them with the Wolverines MC. He wasn’t just afraid they would send another member like Dog Fontaine to visit him, he was afraid that they might harm Dawn if they felt that she had let them down. With him in the north for six months, the Wolverines couldn’t very well go after him, and since he had split from Dawn through no fault of her own, they would have no excuse to bother her about it. It seemed like a win-win solution at the time. He just didn’t know why he found it impossible to feel like a winner.

Matti was almost asleep when someone shook him on the shoulder, and he quickly opened his eyes. A female flight attendant was leaning over him, and once his eyes were open she said, “Matti? Are you Dawn’s friend, Matti? It’s Yvonne Rogers. Remember, I met you in Dawn’s bathroom.” She smiled and looked around to see whether any of the other passengers were paying any attention to her words.

As Matti quickly became more wide-awake he answered, “Yes, I remember you, Yvonne. How could I forget?” Matti grinned, and gave a short laugh as he finished speaking.

Yvonne knelt beside his seat and asked him curiously, “Is Dawn with you? I didn’t see her anywhere here. Or are you on your own?”

“I ... we aren’t together anymore, Yvonne. Not since September. It ... it just didn’t work out.” Matti didn’t want to get into details, so he left it at that.

Yvonne looked very surprised and said, “That shocks me, Matti. I thought you guys were a perfect couple, from what Dawn told me when I spoke with her on the phone. We haven’t talked recently, but now that you tell me this, it might explain why she didn’t sound very happy when I last spoke to her. In fact, we didn’t speak for very long, which also surprised me at the time. What happened between you two?”

Matti didn’t know what he should tell her, so he quickly replied, “It just didn’t work out. I ... maybe someday, if we meet again, I can tell you. I just can’t right now.” He knew he couldn’t give her the same story he had told to Dawn, because his presence on a plane from Mexico pretty much put the lie to that one.

Yvonne gave him a curious look, and said, “I see. Well, in that case, maybe you can tell me what you’ve been up to. How is it that you’re on this plane today?”

“Well, I was down in Costa Rica for a month. It was sort of a ... break from everything.” He thought about what he had said for a second, and then added, “I’d appreciate it if you didn’t mention seeing me the next time you speak to Dawn.”

Yvonne looked at him curiously and asked, “Why would you ask me that?”

Matti realized that he had dug himself a hole and answered, “I ... had to tell Dawn a bit of a story about why we could no longer be together, and I just wouldn’t want you to tell her you saw me. It might hurt her feelings.”

Another flight attendant came up and asked Yvonne for some assistance, so she quickly stood up and leaned over Matti to say, “I still want to know what’s going on between you and Dawn. I’ll come back later.” She turned and left quickly with the other flight attendant.


Matti’s eyes were closed again, and once more he was almost asleep when a tap on his shoulder got his attention. Yvonne was once again beside him, leaning over so that she could speak to him quietly.

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